at nine pm moscow time from the love triangle to a pentagon problem now the scandal that brought the cia chief david petraeus drags in america's commander in afghanistan to with washington play to get you nothing. written squares up since three of the world's top earning corporations who accused of skirting around billions in taxes. and syria's new patchwork opposition fails to get unanimous backing among arab states and he doubts that the foreign form bloc console we serve the syrian people's interests.

if you just joined us very good evening it's covered all in here at r.t. this hour our top story more heartache for washington having lost the director of the cia to an affair last week at no risk losing his top commander in afghanistan two to the same scandal general john allen has been accused of sending inappropriate e-mails to jill kelley one of the women whose implication led to the downfall of one of america's most distinguished offices that he's going to cheat she can now with more on the passions at the pentagon. this scandal is just getting worse and reminds more of a t.v. drama possibly with many episodes the latest episode of the investigation into the affair between former cia director general petraeus and his biographer is the revelation of another extramarital affair now between the top american and nato commander in afghanistan general john allen and a woman named jewel kelly the very woman who officials say general petraeus says mistress paula broadwell saw as a rival for her affections with general petraeus and wrote threatening e-mails to

dead jill kelley was the woman who opened this can of worms when she went to the f.b.i. in the first place and asked them to investigate the harassing anonymous e-mails that she'd been receiving the investigation led to paula broadwell's mailbox and apparently her mailbox revealed her affair with the former cia director a few words about joel kelly i feel like i'm retell the good new exciting t.v. show but reality can be more implausible so jill kelley a mother of three a housewife living in florida they've apparently been friends with the patrice's fool for years and she turned out to be not the most intelligent woman because when she asked the f.b.i. to look into the harassing e-mails that she'd been receiving she somehow forgot that her own mailbox was also full of quote unquote inappropriate e-mails from the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan general john allen also a married official said there were somewhere from twenty to thirty thousand pages

of those e-mails of course they did not reveal the content of those e-mails they just said there was inappropriate communication between the two this may sound like a huge manyfold family drama but it's more serious than that and the military lawyer adultery can be a crime and punishment can be time in prison although general allen will remain the commander of getting sent defense secretary panetta said that he had asked president obama to delay the general's nominate. to be the commander of american forces in europe and the supreme allied commander of nato so john allen would be the third afghanistan general who fell from grace so abruptly and so shockingly too many first it was general stanley mcchrystal resigned when a magazine quoted him saying unflattering things about the administration and then general petraeus over a woman and now general john allen story of the biggest names in the war in afghanistan. former ally five intelligence officer says the full could be the

result of infighting within the intelligence community. like a very well written drama really interesting sam it's in our barn that you let to put his timer we're tracking time they can you use the green shoots we keep the old regime. generals who sort of move through revolving doors which was actually the intelligence that was one of the points brought in to get much coverage of ours to try it and that is the fact that he has been very much and i really thought really pushing for the idea that there should be some sort of military action against iran so there may well have been some sort of maneuvering behind the scenes by other senior intelligence officer to try and get rid of someone that they with the as an outsider who is peddling a lie repeatedly and which undermines their national data. but will keep you updated on how this high stakes love stories unfolding could always catch up with us one of our two door call where we're running

a poll about what you think of the timing of all this so you look see what you're telling us why the vote says so far shows that just over a third of you think the scandals part of a manufactured effort to prevent patrols from testifying on the benghazi killings a little less than a quarter say it's part of a drive to hold the military's leadership of fifty of their believe the election was at the root of it all of the affair was hushed up until obama was reelected but the same number of you see no link and you say ultimately was patricio mistake your say is good if we are to dot com is the place to do it. pressed for cash and hurting from britain is turning on tax avoiders now to help make up his budget shortfall the first in the crosshairs of google amazon and starbucks the tax man wants to question them over earning billions in revenue in the u.k. but only paying peppercorn taxes if any earlier my colleague. spoke to our tease for more on the initiative. these are three companies that dominate the u.k.

economy they have billions of pounds worth of turnover the but it looks like they pay very little corporation tax to show for it and now employees are outraged by the fact that through very legal loopholes these companies that they say are acting in an immoral way are managing to dodge millions and billions of pounds worth of tax every single year and they want to try and put a stop to it now what about i mean the companies we talk about this being called immoral just how did the companies money used to contribute so little or nothing to the treasury without breaking the law certainly a big mystery well it's all a case of financial trickery rory it's about getting clever accountants that find countries with more favorable tax rates to base a u.k. headquarters in so for example google base themselves in the republic of ireland that's way that that's where they sell their advertising space from starbucks abased in holland and amazon based in luxembourg so they manage to pay very little

taxes through channeling their revenue through these countries or thoughts of public reaction sure surely surely there must be a people the public or even m.p.'s who outspoken about this unfortunately worry for much of the ordinary public here in the u.k. it's just not funny anymore they say that you know austerity measures are taking hold in the public spending cuts in the public sent sex really making life difficult for people and we spoke to a few people out on the streets and this is what they told us if we're paying tax on things like. that we have to foot the bill for that i guess we're paying tax on coffee as well why should they not pay the tax that we. took i guess is up to something close to the case that still like you tend to take is that. we think it's fair but you still buy starbucks coffee it's not even higher. this is some activists have already suggested

a plan so to highlight what they're calling this a moral behavior certainly of at least one of the companies or what exactly has been suggested so far yes well this. anti cuts group these campaigners against austerity measures here in the u.k. they say that in december they're going to launch a national day of action against starbucks what they're going to do is they're going to occupy the multitude of starbucks coffee houses that we have here in london you walk down the street you see them everywhere and they're going to make them into the homeless shelter they're going to make them into refuges into pressures because that they say that starbucks have these immoral tactics and they need to give back to society so they're going to be occupying these coffee houses but indeed it's not just the anti campaigners there's a general feeling among the british public that people want to boycott these new large amount multinational companies because of their immoral schemes in the way that they do just take from the public and very little back into the u.k.

economy which as we know is struggling at the moment and really for people here in the u.k. very difficult to make ends meet at the moment so this is a topic that's rousing a lot of anger from the british public. for tax avoiders to cover its deficit is still a strategy all the way from portugal the german chancellor personally reassured lisbon saying pay cuts and tax hike slow painful we'll save it for the republic isn't buying that optimism go full story few minutes. china is set to name its next top politicians including the money expected to succeed the current leader of the communist party congress is in its final days of very focused on keeping economic growth through several challenges ahead china will grow to a point where even its top economic and political rival us will have to seek a kind of compromise that's the view over economics professor spoke to shoot from the. there's nothing in the universe to. the country him no option but to cooperate

and i did not just buy into this you'll find a way to go each other in. a bit more integrated in terms of economic environment but to country music you continue to have some differences in terms of political opinion the problem is the intonation only really. only economy one. easy to country get to it you can still reach out to until it's a trade in which when do you hold. so that you know it will be very interesting to see that it will come to be equal in about ten or is sitting here stop when china is about the size of the ninety's or even two we take these things so you have a balance of economy between he said the west but they will continue with these kinds of ideology ideologies called differences between the two countries. the civil conflict in syria ascending strong ripples across the border we're reporting

soon from lebanon which has turned into sectarian powder keg because of the bloody civil war on its doorstep more about that in a couple of minutes also reporting to the turkey's tightening the screws on kurdish rebels where a revival of capital punishment. has a couple of stories ahead after the break. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me working hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan. kevin lonia new european state so let me get this straight you

want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies stay in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro c. won't have your own currency you will be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that being truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. well. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

browsers. there's. a miss it's in. my daddy. a lot of. well does a famous reuse benson. ransom business. full international backing for syria's rebels potentially meaning more foreign arms and cash is something the newly formed opposition coalition struggling to achieve now the gulf war the keys who pushed for the new set up rushed to proclaim it is the sole syrian people's representative but the wider arab league blog doesn't see

it that way from middle east correspondent paul asli and. the six gulf states have formally recognized the new syrian coalition as the official representative of the syrian people the foreign minister of qatar has said that this recognition will remove obstacles that will ultimately be able to secure arms for syrian rebels the coalition does look set to set up a so-called government in exile if indeed this happens this will have the backing of western as well as arab states there are fears that this could set up a libya style scenario what we saw in libya was opposition fighters sitting themselves up as an alternative government that got the backing of the international community and ultimately led to nato airstrikes and foreign intervention so there are concerns that that might happen here in syria there was also a number question about just how feasible of this proposition group is really we're looking at

a patchwork of various organizations here it is made up of the rebel fighters as well as dissidents and people from all backgrounds and political affiliations it has been marred by bickering over the past few weeks and months indeed this is an organization that does not have internal unity what is important is that the arab league there is no should be one of the most important bodies in the arab world has his attorney be welcomed this new coalition it does say that it is a primary negotiator but it has not gone as far as to say that it is the legitimate representative of the syrian people political analyst in iraq will talk to syrians would never want an opposition formed with the goal of american pressure to grow a poet. i'm glad to see that this collection of corrupt dictatorships is instructing the syrian people as to who their representatives ought to be how about the representatives of the saudi arabian people of the bahraini and people or people of qatar or charge of the arrest of these dictatorships so what would an

outrage that they're the course they're just a subsidiary of the pentagon and of the cia this is part of the long term plot by the u.s. by britain by france by turkey by israel and i'm no fan of assad i might say but. good things are watch words after gadhafi in libya they're going to be much worse if they succeed in overthrowing assad this opposition group was trained in turkey at various american air force bases there are many of them are libyan al-qaeda types they're from other countries they're not syrians they're foreign fighters whatever is wrong with assad i think the people of syria tend not to want outsiders to be telling them what to do they fear these so-called rebels just as much as they fear their own government and my guess is they don't want foreigners occupying and running their country syria's bloody standoff is exposed deep political and sectarian cracks in neighboring lebanon too with a gun battle springing up daily in the northern part of the state. it's next from

a nation hit by theories clashes between warring groups. they share at a terminations a fight to the death but this isn't syria it's lebanon the conflict has crept across the border leading to death and destruction here in tripoli we're standing here you can see the almost complete destruction of a home and this is literally the front line of the. neighborhood in tripoli right across the street out the window that's the bubbletop in a neighborhood where the largely sunni community have been has been clashing with the largely allawi community that is based here it's actually not very safe for us to stand here we've been told by the owner of this apartment that they're still taking casualties in the fighting could really flare up at any moment out of range of the snipers we speak to the homeowner and allawi militia men the misery has only hardened his resolve to fight against neighbors who he says pose a mortal threat. these people have one objective and that is to have an islamic

emirate in the north and militia organizations like hezbollah we won't give up arms as long as thought exists. this is been a flashpoint for years a sunni stronghold next door to an alawite community but strife in syria has unleashed a new sectarian tensions leading to the worst fighting since lebanon's civil war ali food is the spokesperson for the arab democratic party which has its own loyal militia here in. the acid regime falls this area will turn into a dangerous product kerrick this is what we're trying to avoid. i asked him whether disarming might be an option to avoid more bloodshed. we're not afraid while we were filming the lebanese army was overseeing a shaky cease fire but the sandbags are still out awaiting the next battle we're in the neighborhood as you can see behind me that is the area where the gunfire was coming for down here people have been killed on both sides of them since you can

see this is one of the fighting positions this street. preacher heads a sunni militia here in tripoli is babble to ban a slum to having fun with his guns and. showing off his guns he says he's ready to use them again at a moment's notice. we are ready to defend ourselves and to fight fire with fire sheik masri accuses the syrian government of fermenting violence against the sunni's and that's why he says support for the uprising goes far beyond empathy. or assistance to the free syrian army then would do it within our capabilities if it is possible to give them a gun and some bullets then we're happy. however the syrian war plays out it's clear that the outcome will have repercussions far beyond its borders in tripoli the battle lines have been drawn and neither side seems willing to back down lucy caffein of r.t. tripoli lebanon. turkey is considering bringing back the death penalty and korea

abolished capital punishment a decade ago when it launches attempts to join the european union foreign affairs expert such a trick of age says the match is a the political point scoring for turkey's unpopular leader. first of all air the un is aware that he has overplayed his hand piece of the syria and that domestically he's now encountering increasing the position more than seventy percent of turks are totally opposed to any form of intervention in syria's affairs and i think he's trying to appeal to the nationalist element by actually. showing that he doesn't particularly care about what the european union says or does let's not forget that the evolution of the death penalty was one of the preconditions for the princes of turkey getting closer to brussels so he's really trying to put together some kind of domestic coalition that will propel him to the presidential

election of twenty fourteen at a time when she is old policy of no problems with neighbors allies in tatters but the problem is really of his own making he has overplayed his hand. it's the not so united states of america with almost half the country look at the breakaway reporting on the people in places like texas now seem so unhappy with the election that they've filed a petition for independence stories online from us plus taking space junk to a whole new level this is the first. to make it into a wall but there it goes we'll see it any moment. we tell you what it's doing and how it's getting there.

the german chancellor received an angry greeting in portugal where she came to support a stereotype measures gripping the country that raged crowds demonstrated in the streets play the younger merkel for the financial pain they're going through the sort of first reports many question why something that failed in other countries should work in portugal. these measures have been killing us do they give us no future it's only for carriage and employment and misery to many people becoming desperate it's almost like a visceral reaction a visceral reaction to these measures people without getting angrier and angrier angela merkel says it's a political may have been there as a sign of support for this thing daily to serve to highlight the. protesters message loud and clear way testers standing off against the riot police at the site that's become very familiar protest gatherings in europe but perhaps not also a familiar the portugal here until recently have been much more tolerant of the

stricter starts the measures that have been imposed on them but as you can see here portugal's patience is really running out with record levels of unemployment now at fifteen percent and the country about to enter this third year of recession is becoming apparent that the country persons had hate could be a southern european success story well struggling to survive we talk about cuts to jobs we talk about the search measures what does it mean to be living through that right now in portugal it means they don't see any future for my child we are getting angry because the government don't care. about people put two goals most alone of course these stories of hardship are a case all across the usa in brussels finance ministers and desperately trying to come up with a way to pull greece back from the brink of bankruptcy with athens having just

approved yet another round of cuts this is the cause few of the speech if it comes to the grief political class like the rest of the year. in a sense i think christine the. prisoner of the you're not you're watching this on. ology exerts such a power over people. to do things which by any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project the euro in particular. are determined to do everything to keep the single currency act even to destroy their own country and we've greece's economic straits people are questioning just why portugal must follow the same halted rate say many economists say it's deemed to end in failure. r.t. there's been. some talk or do stories of brief now twitter posts of landed more men

in jail in bahrain an activist who's been given six months for defaming the king on the social network three other bahrain these were convicted of the same sentence the crackdown against political dissent social scene thirty one people stripped of their citizenship in the past week with claims they campaigning undermines security never have been massive reform protests of course in bahrain for nearly two years now. a judge released radical muslim cleric abu qatada who's already spent seven years in detention without charge while britain wrestles with the human rights obligations here qatar has wanted in his native jordan on terrorism charges but european rules forbid exile in people to places where they will get a fair trial but the deputy prime minister in britain vying to get the cleric kicked out nonetheless supervisor guitar that could cost british taxpayers five million pounds a year. floods across central italy have now claimed for lives raging waters have struck some of europe's most to storage cities including florence and the lagoon

city of venice to the victims died in similar but separate accidents where the vehicles were swept away by the torrents heavy rain and unusually high tides of cause rivers to swell and burst their banks. exactly twenty six minutes past nine moscow time after the break lorna says capital account looks why lenders continue to grill green. what's ahead for america's exhausted economy too. you can tell an ordinary russian siberian appalled in the blink of an eye wrote one . day siberians war different clothes a different food. different animals. but what about now my journey began in two men but the big city was all shiny all funded skyscrapers and shopping

malls much like any other prosperous russian post. so i decided to. a small town just outside. many. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia . with cabbage and making sure you can have many as a start the main dish. although it may draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate.

when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by air transport in the summer. and winter. it's inhabited by siberian a large muslim minority. that migrated to before the russians. i'm through this. is real siberia maybe not the stuff of tourism brochures but the sting to the show that. is so blue still that it was like a new era. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for monday november twelfth two thousand and twelve what

happens when you take your medicine you can do for the pain but your sickness doesn't go away well you might want to ask greece out then passed a new austerity budget they committed to public sector cuts privatization measures but grazes careening towards its sixth year of economic contraction that is six years of depression we'll get a report on the ground by greek journalist be honest paleologos live from athens and the international energy agency says the u.s. is on track to become the world's top oil producer in two thousand and seventeen and most entirely be energy self-sufficient by two thousand and thirty five what is this forecast dependent on and what does this mean for the energy outlook and for so many political talking points we've heard over the years like this. we're still addicted to foreign oil president obama in washington all talk no action. on oh well this got plus a trillion dollars from the.